
The Modern World Is Aging Your Brain
Science, Spoken
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The Embargo of Riches Hypothesis
In Bolivia, the chameine population has recently begun integrating more thanks to cheaper canoe motors. High BMI in middle age indicates bad brain health, but low BMI in old age tracks with frailty and dementia. Still, a tricky thing about comparing such different societies is that researchers are only evaluating who actually survives to old age. The adults that made it to this point may not be representative of the whole population.
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